GRE Word List
FLACCID
not firm or stiff
The meaning of the word flaccid is not firm or stiff.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |