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 |
|---|---|
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |