GRE Word List
INORDINATE
exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate
The meaning of the word inordinate is exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| calculated | apt |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |