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 |
|---|---|
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| agenda | a list or outline of things to be considered or done |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |