GRE Word List
UNRAVEL
to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle
The meaning of the word unravel is to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| vixen | a female fox |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |