GRE Word List
DOMINANT
commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others
The meaning of the word dominant is commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| dart | a light spear |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |