GRE Word List
CAREER
a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
The meaning of the word career is a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
| unfrock | defrock |