GRE Word List
DETACHED
standing by itself : separate
The meaning of the word detached is standing by itself : separate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| onus | burden |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |