GRE Word List
FACULTY
ability
The meaning of the word faculty is ability.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |