GRE Word List
MAT
a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support
The meaning of the word mat is a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| apprehend | arrest |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |