GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impuissance | weakness |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |