GRE Word List
HINTERLANDS
a region lying inland from a coast
The meaning of the word hinterlands is a region lying inland from a coast.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| obscure | dark |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |