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 |
|---|---|
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |