GRE Word List
QUIVER
a case for carrying or holding arrows
The meaning of the word quiver is a case for carrying or holding arrows.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| calculated | apt |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |