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 |
|---|---|
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| obese | having excessive body fat |