GRE Word List
STANDSTILL
a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop
The meaning of the word standstill is a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| render | to melt down |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |