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 |
|---|---|
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| nib | bill |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| chassis | the supporting frame of a structure (such as an automobile or television) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |