GRE Word List
EVANESCENT
tending to vanish like vapor
The meaning of the word evanescent is tending to vanish like vapor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| mischance | bad luck |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |