GRE Word List
FATHOM
a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water
The meaning of the word fathom is a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brawny | muscular |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| diva | prima donna |