GRE Word List
AMBIDEXTROUS
using both hands with equal ease or dexterity
The meaning of the word ambidextrous is using both hands with equal ease or dexterity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |