GRE Word List
WREST
to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements
The meaning of the word wrest is to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| shack | hut |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |