GRE Word List
PRATE
to talk long and idly : chatter
The meaning of the word prate is to talk long and idly : chatter.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |