GRE Word List
CIVIL
of or relating to citizens
The meaning of the word civil is of or relating to citizens.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| versatile | embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| curator | a person who oversees or manages a place (such as a museum or zoo) that offers exhibits |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |