GRE Word List
CORPUSCLE
a minute particle
The meaning of the word corpuscle is a minute particle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |