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 |
|---|---|
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |