GRE Word List
SWIPE
a strong sweeping blow
The meaning of the word swipe is a strong sweeping blow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conundrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |