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
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detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
congenital | existing at or dating from birth |
fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |