GRE Word List
GRADATION
a series forming successive stages
The meaning of the word gradation is a series forming successive stages.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |