GRE Word List
DIDACTIC
designed or intended to teach
The meaning of the word didactic is designed or intended to teach.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| billow | wave |