GRE Word List
ESOTERIC
designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone
The meaning of the word esoteric is designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |