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 |
|---|---|
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| shambles | a meat market |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| irate | roused to ire |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |