GRE Word List
URGE
to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly
The meaning of the word urge is to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| scion | descendant |
| trenchant | keen |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |