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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| fake | not true, real, or genuine : counterfeit |
| environ | encircle |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| portly | dignified |