GRE Word List
SQUAT
to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground
The meaning of the word squat is to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| dire | exciting horror |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| expatriate | banish |