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 |
|---|---|
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| freebooter | pirate |