GRE Word List
REPERCUSSION
reflection
The meaning of the word repercussion is reflection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glitter | to shine by reflection with many small flashes of brilliant light : sparkle |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |