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 |
|---|---|
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
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| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |