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 |
|---|---|
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| dingy | dirty |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| sophist | philosopher |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |