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 |
|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |