GRE Word List
ALTRUISTIC
relating to or given to altruism:
The meaning of the word altruistic is relating to or given to altruism:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| crochet | needlework consisting of the interlocking of looped stitches formed with a single thread and a hooked needle |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| betray | to lead astray |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
