GRE Word List
HALTING
marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness
The meaning of the word halting is marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| brag | a pompous or boastful statement |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |