GRE Word List
REPRISE
a musical repetition:
The meaning of the word reprise is a musical repetition:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |