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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| potentate | ruler |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |