GRE Word List
ELASTIC
capable of recovering size and shape after deformation
The meaning of the word elastic is capable of recovering size and shape after deformation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| crass | gross |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| duration | continuance in time |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |