GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |