GRE Word List
INNOVATION
a new idea, method, or device : novelty
The meaning of the word innovation is a new idea, method, or device : novelty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |