GRE Word List
CONSTRAINT
the act of constraining
The meaning of the word constraint is the act of constraining.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| refrain | curb |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |