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 |
|---|---|
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |