GRE Word List
MANEUVER
a military or naval movement
The meaning of the word maneuver is a military or naval movement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |