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 |
|---|---|
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |