GRE Word List
URCHIN
hedgehog
The meaning of the word urchin is hedgehog.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| polity | political organization |