GRE Word List
TRUNK
the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots
The meaning of the word trunk is the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| impinge | encroach |