GRE Word List
CLEFT
a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure
The meaning of the word cleft is a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| aperture | an opening or open space : hole |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |