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 |
|---|---|
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |