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 |
|---|---|
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| steep | lofty |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |