GRE Word List
SUFFOCATE
to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation)
The meaning of the word suffocate is to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| microcosm | a little world |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| 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 |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |