GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |