GRE Word List
LUNAR
crescent
The meaning of the word lunar is crescent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |