GRE Word List
SQUELCH
to fall or stamp on so as to crush
The meaning of the word squelch is to fall or stamp on so as to crush.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| civil | of or relating to citizens |
| 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 |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |