GRE Word List
ELUSIVE
tending to elude: such as
The meaning of the word elusive is tending to elude: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |