GRE Word List
URCHIN
hedgehog
The meaning of the word urchin is hedgehog.
Random words
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|---|---|
| hover | to position (a computer cursor) over something (such as an image or icon) without selecting it |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
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