GRE Word List
INTRINSIC
belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing
The meaning of the word intrinsic is belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| natal | native |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |