GRE Word List
THROTTLE
to compress the throat of : choke
The meaning of the word throttle is to compress the throat of : choke.
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| random | a haphazard course |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| leave-taking | departure |
| concentric | having a common center |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |