GRE Word List
LIGNEOUS
of or resembling wood
The meaning of the word ligneous is of or resembling wood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |