GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| quorum | a select group |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |