GRE Word List
ABORTIVE
prematurely born
The meaning of the word abortive is prematurely born.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |