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 |
|---|---|
| duration | continuance in time |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |