GRE Word List
ALIMENTARY
of or relating to nourishment or nutrition
The meaning of the word alimentary is of or relating to nourishment or nutrition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| dilute | attenuate |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |