GRE Word List
AMPHIBIAN
an amphibious organism
The meaning of the word amphibian is an amphibious organism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |