GRE Word List
FACULTY
ability
The meaning of the word faculty is ability.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| refrain | curb |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |