GRE Word List
INTANGIBLE
not tangible : impalpable
The meaning of the word intangible is not tangible : impalpable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |