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 |
|---|---|
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |