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 |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |