GRE Word List
REND
to remove from place by violence : wrest
The meaning of the word rend is to remove from place by violence : wrest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |