GRE Word List
RALLY
to muster for a common purpose
The meaning of the word rally is to muster for a common purpose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| countenance | look |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |