GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| stink | to emit a strong offensive odor |
| retiring | reserved |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |