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 |
|---|---|
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |