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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |