GRE Word List
REPEAL
to rescind or annul by authoritative act
The meaning of the word repeal is to rescind or annul by authoritative act.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |