GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| antecede | precede |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| 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 |