GRE Word List
VERGE
brink
The meaning of the word verge is brink.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| sublimate | sublime |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |