GRE Word List
SURGE
to rise and fall actively : toss
The meaning of the word surge is to rise and fall actively : toss.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |