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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| facsimile | an exact copy |