GRE Word List
PUMMEL
pound
The meaning of the word pummel is pound.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |