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 |
|---|---|
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |