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 |
|---|---|
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |