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 |
|---|---|
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |