GRE Word List
INDICES
signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index
The meaning of the word indices is signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| hallowed | holy |