GRE Word List
STOCKADE
a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense
The meaning of the word stockade is a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| cursive | running |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| colloquy | conversation |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |