GRE Word List
REPELLENT
serving or tending to drive away or ward off
The meaning of the word repellent is serving or tending to drive away or ward off.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |