GRE Word List
WRITHE
to twist into coils or folds
The meaning of the word writhe is to twist into coils or folds.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| warrant | sanction |
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| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |