GRE Word List
GAMBIT
a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position
The meaning of the word gambit is a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |