GRE Word List
ABORTIVE
prematurely born
The meaning of the word abortive is prematurely born.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |
| vixen | a female fox |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |