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 |
|---|---|
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| serenity | the quality or state of being serene |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |