GRE Word List
BIENNIAL
occurring every two years
The meaning of the word biennial is occurring every two years.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| healthy | enjoying good health |
| 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 |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| exude | to ooze out |