GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |