GRE Word List
MARITIME
of, relating to, or bordering on the sea
The meaning of the word maritime is of, relating to, or bordering on the sea.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| encumber | weigh down |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| contrive | devise |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |