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 |
|---|---|
| haggard | not tamed |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |