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 |
|---|---|
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| severity | the quality or state of being severe : the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| freebooter | pirate |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |