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 |
|---|---|
| lunar | crescent |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |