GRE Word List
CUMULATIVE
increasing by successive additions
The meaning of the word cumulative is increasing by successive additions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| connoisseur | expert |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |