GRE Word List
INTERVENE
to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events
The meaning of the word intervene is to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| implode | to burst inward |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| motley | variegated in color |
| indemnify | to secure against hurt, loss, or damage |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |