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 |
|---|---|
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| mortician | undertaker |