GRE Word List
YOKE
a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together
The meaning of the word yoke is a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |