GRE Word List
VYING
contending; to strive for superiority
The meaning of the word vying is contending; to strive for superiority.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| stench | stink |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| slapdash | haphazard |