GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |