GRE Word List
CALORIFIC
caloric
The meaning of the word calorific is caloric.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| braid | to make from braids |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |