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 |
|---|---|
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |