GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |