GRE Word List
GLEAM
a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light
The meaning of the word gleam is a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |