GRE Word List
BIENNIAL
occurring every two years
The meaning of the word biennial is occurring every two years.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |