GRE Word List
REPRISE
a musical repetition:
The meaning of the word reprise is a musical repetition:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| pitfall | trap |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |