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 |
|---|---|
| overweening | arrogant |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| nib | bill |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |