GRE Word List
WAG
shake repeatedly from side to side; Ex. The dog wagged its tail; N: humorous person; wit
The meaning of the word wag is shake repeatedly from side to side; Ex. The dog wagged its tail; N: humorous person; wit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rococo | ornate; highly decorated; N. CF. 18th century |
| psychopathic | pertaining to mental dearrangement; N. psychopath: person with an antisocial personality disorder |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile; incompatible; not able to be resolved |
| junta | group of persons joined in political intrigue; cabal; group of military officers ruling a country after seizing power (by force) |
| trifling | trivial; unimportant |
| relic | surviving remnant (from an extinct culture); memento; keepsake; relics: corpse; Ex. ancient relics; Ex. relics of his travel; Ex. His relics are buried at X. |
| nubile | marriageable; of marriageable age; CF. connubial |
| convoluted | coiled around; twisted; involved; complicated; intricate; complex; N. convolution: twist; one of the convex folds of the surface of the brain |
| garner | gather; store up; amass |
| prosaic | lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts, not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose |
