GRE Word List
DISTINCTIVE
marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish
The meaning of the word distinctive is marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |