GRE Word List
INTERMITTENT
coming and going at intervals : not continuous
The meaning of the word intermittent is coming and going at intervals : not continuous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| errant | behaving wrongly |