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

WordMeaning
ambivalencesimultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
seepto flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze
incentivesomething that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action
exhumedisinter
forerunnerone that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as
overblownpast the prime of bloom
bequeathto give or leave by will (see will
xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
inherentinvolved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic
browseto eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse