GRE Word List
ASTEROID
any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
The meaning of the word asteroid is any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| congruent | congruous |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| combustible | capable of combustion |