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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| fulcrum | prop |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |