GRE Word List
CULVERT
a transverse drain
The meaning of the word culvert is a transverse drain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| 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 |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |