GRE Word List
BREADTH
distance from side to side : width
The meaning of the word breadth is distance from side to side : width.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |