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 |
|---|---|
| mendicant | beggar |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| clip | encompass |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |