GRE Word List
CORPOREAL
having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as
The meaning of the word corporeal is having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| urchin | hedgehog |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |