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.
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| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |