GRE Word List
URCHIN
hedgehog
The meaning of the word urchin is hedgehog.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |