GRE Word List
POSTURE
the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose
The meaning of the word posture is the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |