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 |
|---|---|
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |
| flounder | flatfish |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| acne | a disorder of the skin caused by inflammation of the skin glands and hair follicles |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| beleaguer | besiege |