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 |
|---|---|
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |