GRE Word List
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
The meaning of the word catalyst is 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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| impinge | encroach |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |