GRE Word List
ABYSS
an immeasurably deep gulf or great space
The meaning of the word abyss is an immeasurably deep gulf or great space.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| demure | reserved |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |