GRE Word List
POLARIZE
to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
The meaning of the word polarize is to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |