GRE Word List
DETERMINATE
having defined limits
The meaning of the word determinate is having defined limits.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |