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 |
|---|---|
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| influx | a coming in |
| mendicant | beggar |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |