GRE Word List
CAPACITY
legal competency (see competence
The meaning of the word capacity is legal competency (see competence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |