GRE Word List
LABYRINTH
a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys
The meaning of the word labyrinth is a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monochrome | a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |