GRE Word List
ISTHMUS
a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
The meaning of the word isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |