GRE Word List
MAVERICK
an unbranded range animal
The meaning of the word maverick is an unbranded range animal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| reverie | daydream |