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 |
|---|---|
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| replica | an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |