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 |
|---|---|
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| mystic | mystical |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |