GRE Word List
LICENSE
permission to act
The meaning of the word license is permission to act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| doddering | feeble |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| steep | lofty |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| 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 |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| beatitude | a state of utmost bliss |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |