GRE Word List
PUGILIST
fighter
The meaning of the word pugilist is fighter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| ploy | escapade |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |