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 |
|---|---|
| sere | being dried and withered |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |