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 |
|---|---|
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| slapdash | haphazard |