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 |
|---|---|
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| reckon | count |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |