GRE Word List
SNUB
to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke
The meaning of the word snub is to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| commune | talk over |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |