GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |