GRE Word List
CATEGORICAL
absolute
The meaning of the word categorical is absolute.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| exhume | disinter |
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |
| 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 |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |