GRE Word List
ELUSIVE
tending to elude: such as
The meaning of the word elusive is tending to elude: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |