GRE Word List
DESULTORY
marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
The meaning of the word desultory is marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demented | mad |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |