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 |
|---|---|
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |