GRE Word List

INERT

lacking the power to move

The meaning of the word inert is lacking the power to move.

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WordMeaning
cordialshowing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval
umbragea feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
visceralfelt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep
unearthto dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume
patrimonyan estate inherited from one's father or ancestor
xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
interregnumthe time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes
askewout of line : at an angle
shunto avoid deliberately and especially habitually
opalescentreflecting an iridescent light