GRE Word List
SWIPE
a strong sweeping blow
The meaning of the word swipe is a strong sweeping blow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| throes | pang |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| 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 |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| crass | gross |