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 |
|---|---|
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| engender | beget |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |