GRE Word List
REPRESS
to check by or as if by pressure : curb
The meaning of the word repress is to check by or as if by pressure : curb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |