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 |
|---|---|
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| intermediary | mediator |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| junket | trip |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |