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 |
|---|---|
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| scion | descendant |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| clip | encompass |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |