GRE Word List
URCHIN
hedgehog
The meaning of the word urchin is hedgehog.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| hirsute | hairy |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |