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 |
|---|---|
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |