GRE Word List
REPERCUSSION
reflection
The meaning of the word repercussion is reflection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |