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 |
|---|---|
| purported | reputed |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| hap | happening |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| momentum | a property (see property |