GRE Word List
REPRISE
a musical repetition:
The meaning of the word reprise is a musical repetition:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |