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 |
|---|---|
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |