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 |
|---|---|
| privy | private |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |