GRE Word List
BREACH
infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard
The meaning of the word breach is infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| medium | something in a middle position |
| 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 |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |