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 |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| grill | to broil on a grill |