GRE Word List
ARCANE
known or knowable only to a few people : secret
The meaning of the word arcane is known or knowable only to a few people : secret.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| potentate | ruler |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |