GRE Word List
EVANESCENT
tending to vanish like vapor
The meaning of the word evanescent is tending to vanish like vapor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| nexus | connection |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| encumber | weigh down |
| spate | freshet |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |