GRE Word List
ARBITRARY
existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will
The meaning of the word arbitrary is existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| gnarl | snarl |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |