GRE Word List
DETACHED
standing by itself : separate
The meaning of the word detached is standing by itself : separate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| stringent | tight |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |