GRE Word List
RATION
a food allowance for one day
The meaning of the word ration is a food allowance for one day.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| microcosm | a little world |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| executor | one who executes something |