GRE Word List
CULVERT
a transverse drain
The meaning of the word culvert is a transverse drain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quisling | traitor |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| apparent | open to view : visible |