GRE Word List
WRENCH
to move with a violent twist
The meaning of the word wrench is to move with a violent twist.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| provenance | origin |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| vital | of the utmost importance |