GRE Word List
REPULSE
to drive or beat back : repel
The meaning of the word repulse is to drive or beat back : repel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |