GRE Word List
ABORIGINAL
being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region
The meaning of the word aboriginal is being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| hardy | bold |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |