GRE Word List
LATITUDE
angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as
The meaning of the word latitude is angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |