GRE Word List
VEER
to change direction or course
The meaning of the word veer is to change direction or course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |