GRE Word List
COLLATERAL
property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender
The meaning of the word collateral is property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| chafe | irritate |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |