GRE Word List
FLUCTUATE
to shift back and forth uncertainly
The meaning of the word fluctuate is to shift back and forth uncertainly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |