GRE Word List
LATENT
present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
The meaning of the word latent is present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |