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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
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| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
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| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |