GRE Word List
CULVERT
a transverse drain
The meaning of the word culvert is a transverse drain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |