GRE Word List
INERT
lacking the power to move
The meaning of the word inert is lacking the power to move.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |