GRE Word List
MAVERICK
an unbranded range animal
The meaning of the word maverick is an unbranded range animal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cursive | running |
| drivel | nonsense |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| precipitant | precipitate |