GRE Word List
APERTURE
an opening or open space : hole
The meaning of the word aperture is an opening or open space : hole.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| address | to mark directions for delivery on |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| 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 |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
