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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| flourish | to grow luxuriantly : thrive |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| influx | a coming in |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |