GRE Word List
CAPACITY
legal competency (see competence
The meaning of the word capacity is legal competency (see competence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| drab | slattern |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |