GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| fell | skin |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |