GRE Word List
WREAK
bring about
The meaning of the word wreak is bring about.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| kismet | fate |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| conflagration | fire |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |