GRE Word List
WAKE
to be or remain awake
The meaning of the word wake is to be or remain awake.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| spate | freshet |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |