GRE Word List
CRYPTIC
secret
The meaning of the word cryptic is secret.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water |