GRE Word List
ARDOR
an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling
The meaning of the word ardor is an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| sheer | unqualified |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| hirsute | hairy |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| belabor | to attack verbally |