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 |
|---|---|
| din | a loud continued noise |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| mendicant | beggar |
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| 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 |
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |