GRE Word List
EXPERTISE
the skill of an expert
The meaning of the word expertise is the skill of an expert.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| privy | private |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| stench | stink |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |