GRE Word List
SLEDGE
sledgehammer
The meaning of the word sledge is sledgehammer.
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masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
reprisal | a retaliatory act |
scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
constraint | the act of constraining |
somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |