GRE Word List
REPULSE
to drive or beat back : repel
The meaning of the word repulse is to drive or beat back : repel.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hallowed | holy |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |