GRE Word List
RESURGE
to undergo a resurgence
The meaning of the word resurge is to undergo a resurgence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |