GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| farce | stuff |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |