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 |
|---|---|
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |