GRE Word List
APEX
the uppermost point : vertex
The meaning of the word apex is the uppermost point : vertex.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| 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 |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |