GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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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 |