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 |
|---|---|
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |