GRE Word List
HISTORICAL
of, relating to, or having the character of history
The meaning of the word historical is of, relating to, or having the character of history.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forte | one's strong point |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |