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 |
|---|---|
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| trample | tramp |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |