GRE Word List
SHOOT
to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger)
The meaning of the word shoot is to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| cue | the letter q |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
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| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |