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 |
|---|---|
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| array | to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire : adorn |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| executor | one who executes something |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |