GRE Word List
DERIVATIVE
a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation
The meaning of the word derivative is a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |