GRE Word List
RETORT
to pay or hurl back : return
The meaning of the word retort is to pay or hurl back : return.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| provident | frugal |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |