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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |