GRE Word List
WADE
to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air
The meaning of the word wade is to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air.
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 |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| clown | farmer |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| cohorts | companion |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |