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 |
|---|---|
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |