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 |
|---|---|
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| drivel | nonsense |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
