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 |
|---|---|
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| actuary | clerk |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| warranted | sanction |
