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 |
|---|---|
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| gnome | maxim |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |