GRE Word List
RIP
to tear or split apart or open
The meaning of the word rip is to tear or split apart or open.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| sublimate | sublime |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| score | twenty |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |