GRE Word List
VERVE
the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity
The meaning of the word verve is the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| cohorts | companion |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |