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 |
|---|---|
| haggard | not tamed |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| rescind | to take away : remove |