GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |