GRE Word List
HIATUS
gap; pause; gap or interruption in space or time; break
The meaning of the word hiatus is gap; pause; gap or interruption in space or time; break.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adversary | opponent; enemy |
| premonitory | serving to warn |
| sonnet | 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern |
| grill | question severely; cook on a grill; broil; N: cooking surface of parallel metal bars |
| destitute | extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience |
| livid | lead-colored; black and blue (as from a bruise); ashen; enraged; extremely angry |
| voracious | ravenous; eating large quantities of food; exceedingly eager; insatiable; Ex. voracious animal/reader |
| glacial | like a glacier; of an ice age; extremely cold; Ex. glacial epoch; CF. iceberg |
| polemic | attack or defense of an opinion; controversy or refutation; argument in support of point of view; N. polemics: art of debate or controversy |
| mortar | vessel in which substances are crushed with a pestle |
