GRE Word List
UPSHOT
the final result : outcome
The meaning of the word upshot is the final result : outcome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nutritious | nourishing |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |