GRE Word List
EPHEMERAL
lasting a very short time
The meaning of the word ephemeral is lasting a very short time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dermatologist | a branch of medicine dealing with the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |