GRE Word List
CONCEPTION
the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both
The meaning of the word conception is the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| historic | historical |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| addle | rotten |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |