GRE Word List
SLAP
to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand
The meaning of the word slap is to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |