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 |
|---|---|
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |