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 |
|---|---|
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| rotunda | a round building |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |