GRE Word List
LIGNEOUS
of or resembling wood
The meaning of the word ligneous is of or resembling wood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| brook | creek |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |