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 |
|---|---|
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| unanimity | the quality or state of being unanimous |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |