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 |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| pediatrician | a specialist in pediatrics |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| acne | a disorder of the skin caused by inflammation of the skin glands and hair follicles |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |