GRE Word List
CALORIFIC
caloric
The meaning of the word calorific is caloric.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| ploy | escapade |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |