GRE Word List
WHINE
to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry
The meaning of the word whine is to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |