GRE Word List
URCHIN
hedgehog
The meaning of the word urchin is hedgehog.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| ensconce | shelter |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| duration | continuance in time |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |