GRE Word List
RESIGNATION
an act or instance of resigning something : surrender
The meaning of the word resignation is an act or instance of resigning something : surrender.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |