GRE Word List
SWIPE
a strong sweeping blow
The meaning of the word swipe is a strong sweeping blow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
