GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| monochromatic | having or consisting of one color or hue |