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
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addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
gnome | maxim |
flounder | flatfish |