GRE Word List
REPOSE
a state of resting after exertion or strain
The meaning of the word repose is a state of resting after exertion or strain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| engender | beget |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |