GRE Word List
SWIPE
a strong sweeping blow
The meaning of the word swipe is a strong sweeping blow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |