GRE Word List
MUNDANE
of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
The meaning of the word mundane is of, relating to, or characteristic of the world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| query | question |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |