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 |
|---|---|
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |