GRE Word List
QUARANTINE
a period of 40 days
The meaning of the word quarantine is a period of 40 days.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| impinge | encroach |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
