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 |
|---|---|
| premonitory | giving warning |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| passe | past one's prime |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| modish | fashionable |