GRE Word List
STANCH
to check or stop the flowing of
The meaning of the word stanch is to check or stop the flowing of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |