GRE Word List
DEBRIS
the remains of something broken down or destroyed
The meaning of the word debris is the remains of something broken down or destroyed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| prattle | prate |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |