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 |
|---|---|
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| ploy | escapade |