GRE Word List
TENSION
inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion
The meaning of the word tension is inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |