GRE Word List
DESERTS
arid land with usually sparse vegetation
The meaning of the word deserts is arid land with usually sparse vegetation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |