GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |