GRE Word List
BILLOWING
wave
The meaning of the word billowing is wave.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| environ | encircle |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |