GRE Word List
HETEROGENEOUS
consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed
The meaning of the word heterogeneous is consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| impuissance | weakness |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| compulsory | mandatory |