GRE Word List
CREST
a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration
The meaning of the word crest is a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| hurl | rush |
| opportunist | one that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |