GRE Word List
MOTE
a small particle : speck
The meaning of the word mote is a small particle : speck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| impenitent | not penitent |