GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| puerile | juvenile |
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| wont | accustomed |