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 |
|---|---|
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |