GRE Word List
REPINE
to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain
The meaning of the word repine is to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| juncture | a point of time |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |