GRE Word List
RIVET
a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head
The meaning of the word rivet is a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |