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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |