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 |
|---|---|
| espouse | marry |
| dart | a light spear |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |