GRE Word List
QUISLING
traitor
The meaning of the word quisling is traitor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |