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 |
|---|---|
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |