GRE Word List
SWELL
to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit
The meaning of the word swell is to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| waif | a stray person or animal |