GRE Word List
CADET
a younger brother or son
The meaning of the word cadet is a younger brother or son.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |