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 |
|---|---|
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |