GRE Word List

PROPULSIVE

tending or having power to propel

The meaning of the word propulsive is tending or having power to propel.

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polaritythe quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles
bawdyboisterously or humorously indecent
elaborationplanned or carried out with great care
solicitousmanifesting or expressing solicitude
derideto laugh at or insult contemptuously
emaciatedvery thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness
ablutionthe washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite)
arcaneknown or knowable only to a few people : secret
pretentiouscharacterized by pretension: such as
beleaguerbesiege