GRE Word List
PRANK
trick
The meaning of the word prank is trick.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |