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 |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| license | permission to act |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |