GRE Word List
NAVIGABLE
deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships
The meaning of the word navigable is deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |