GRE Word List
WHOLESOME
promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit
The meaning of the word wholesome is promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |