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 |
|---|---|
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |