GRE Word List
INEXTRICABLE
forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free
The meaning of the word inextricable is forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |