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 |
|---|---|
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| forlorn | bereft |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |