GRE Word List
WRENCH
to move with a violent twist
The meaning of the word wrench is to move with a violent twist.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frail | easily led into evil |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |