GRE Word List
GRAPHITE
a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
The meaning of the word graphite is a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| mulct | fine |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |