GRE Word List
INKLING
a slight knowledge or vague notion
The meaning of the word inkling is a slight knowledge or vague notion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |