GRE Word List
MULTIPLICITY
the quality or state of being multiple or various
The meaning of the word multiplicity is the quality or state of being multiple or various.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |