GRE Word List
CHECKERED
marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials
The meaning of the word checkered is marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trample | tramp |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| doddering | feeble |