GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |