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 |
|---|---|
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |