GRE Word List
PUGILIST
fighter
The meaning of the word pugilist is fighter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |