GRE Word List
ADAMANT
unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding
The meaning of the word adamant is unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |