GRE Word List
REPEL
to drive back : repulse
The meaning of the word repel is to drive back : repulse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |