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 |
|---|---|
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |