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 |
|---|---|
| frail | easily led into evil |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| scourge | whip |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |