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 |
|---|---|
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| chapel | a subordinate or private place of worship: such as |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| gnarl | snarl |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |