GRE Word List
MATRIX
something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form
The meaning of the word matrix is something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |