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 |
|---|---|
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |