GRE Word List
RANCOR
bitter deep-seated ill will
The meaning of the word rancor is bitter deep-seated ill will.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
welter | writhe |
figure | a number symbol : numeral |
waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
dyslexia | a variable often familial learning disability involving difficulties in acquiring and processing language that is typically manifested by a lack of proficiency in reading, spelling, and writing |
gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
figurine | a small carved or molded figure : statuette |
dys- | abnormal |
onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |