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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| influx | a coming in |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |