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 |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |