GRE Word List
INDETERMINATE
uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
The meaning of the word indeterminate is uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pugilist | boxer; CF. pugilism: boxing |
| valid | logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable; effective; Ex. valid reasoning/passport |
| posthumous | after death (as of child born after father's death or book published after author's death); coming or occurring after one's death; Ex. posthumous fame/novel |
| subsume | include (as a member of a group); encompass |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| qualify | reach a necessary standard; limit the meaning of something stated |
| gamut | entire range |
| paraphrase | restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words |
| blunder | error; stupid mistake |
| susceptible | impressionable; easily influenced; sensitive; having little resistance as to a disease; likely to suffer; receptive to; capable of accepting; Ex. susceptible to persuasion/colds; Ex. The agreement is not susceptible of alteration; N. susceptibility |
