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 |
|---|---|
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |