GRE Word List
CRITERIA
a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based
The meaning of the word criteria is a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| quench | put out |