GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |