GRE Word List
CORPUSCLE
a minute particle
The meaning of the word corpuscle is a minute particle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| stentorian | extremely loud |