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 |
|---|---|
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |