GRE Word List
INFINITESIMAL
immeasurably or incalculably small
The meaning of the word infinitesimal is immeasurably or incalculably small.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| gastronomy | the art or science of good eating |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| pending | during |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |