GRE Word List
FUGITIVE
running away or intending flight
The meaning of the word fugitive is running away or intending flight.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skimp | skimpy |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| thespian | actor |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |