GRE Word List
IDLE
not occupied or employed: such as
The meaning of the word idle is not occupied or employed: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
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| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |