GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| occident | west |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |