GRE Word List
ARCHIPELAGO
an expanse of water with many scattered islands
The meaning of the word archipelago is an expanse of water with many scattered islands.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |