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 |
|---|---|
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |