GRE Word List
GOSSAMER
a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
The meaning of the word gossamer is a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| deify | to make a god of |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| 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 |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |