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 |
|---|---|
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |