GRE Word List
ELEVATION
the height to which something is elevated: such as
The meaning of the word elevation is the height to which something is elevated: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| countenance | look |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| lag | one that lags or is last |