GRE Word List
BELATED
delayed beyond the usual time
The meaning of the word belated is delayed beyond the usual time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| cue | the letter q |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |