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 |
|---|---|
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| query | question |
| billowing | wave |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |