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 |
|---|---|
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |