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 |
|---|---|
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| inequity | injustice |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| microcosm | a little world |