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 |
|---|---|
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| mischance | bad luck |
| concentric | having a common center |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| 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 |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |