GRE Word List
ASSAY
to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components
The meaning of the word assay is to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |