GRE Word List
FORTE
one's strong point
The meaning of the word forte is one's strong point.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| swipe | a strong sweeping blow |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| encompass | include |