GRE Word List
BIENNIAL
occurring every two years
The meaning of the word biennial is occurring every two years.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |