GRE Word List
START
to move suddenly and violently : spring
The meaning of the word start is to move suddenly and violently : spring.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| irate | roused to ire |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |