GRE Word List
WINCE
to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch
The meaning of the word wince is to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |