GRE Word List
GERMANE
being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting
The meaning of the word germane is being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
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| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |