GRE Word List
CIVIL
of or relating to citizens
The meaning of the word civil is of or relating to citizens.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| purge | to clear of guilt |