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 |
|---|---|
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |