GRE Word List
QUAFF
to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously
The meaning of the word quaff is to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously.
Random words
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |