GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |