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 |
|---|---|
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |