GRE Word List
TRAVERSE
to go or travel across or over
The meaning of the word traverse is to go or travel across or over.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |