GRE Word List
RAIL
a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier
The meaning of the word rail is a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| inequity | injustice |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |