GRE Word List
FUNCTIONAL
made for practical use only (without decoration); functioning; Ex. functional modern furniture; CF. functionalism
The meaning of the word functional is made for practical use only (without decoration); functioning; Ex. functional modern furniture; CF. functionalism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repine | fret; complain; be annoyed; Ex. repine over the undone work |
| wizened | shriveled; withered; Ex. wizened apple/old lady |
| curfew | regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew |
| conventional | ordinary; typical; not nuclear; Ex. conventional weapons |
| excise | cut away; cut out; N: government tax on good produced and used inside a country; N. excision |
| checkered | marked by great changes in fortune; with many changes of fortuene; CF. checked: having a pattern of squares |
| screech | unpleasant high sharp sound; shriek; V. |
| douse | plunge into water or liquid; dip; immerse; drench; wet throughly; extinguish; throw water over; dowse |
| irascible | irritable; easily angered |
| contiguous | adjacent to; touching upon |