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 |
|---|---|
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| enhance | heighten |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |