GRE Word List
TICKLE
to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
The meaning of the word tickle is to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| contrive | devise |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| putrefy | to make putrid |