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 |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| enhance | heighten |