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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |