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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| prong | fork |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| 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 |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |