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 |
|---|---|
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |