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 |
|---|---|
| application | an act of applying: |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |