GRE Word List
CIRCUITOUS
having a circular or winding course
The meaning of the word circuitous is having a circular or winding course.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| giddy | dizzy |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |