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 |
|---|---|
| flighty | swift |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |