GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |