GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| microcosm | a little world |