GRE Word List
HISTORIC
historical
The meaning of the word historic is historical.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |