GRE Word List
THWART
to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of
The meaning of the word thwart is to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| clime | climate |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |