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 |
|---|---|
| broil | to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : grill |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |