GRE Word List
WRING
to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid
The meaning of the word wring is to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| mendicant | beggar |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |