GRE Word List
DISTANT
separated in space : away
The meaning of the word distant is separated in space : away.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| overthrow | overturn |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| congenial | pleasant |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |