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
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mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
judiciary | a system of courts of law |
droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
encumber | weigh down |
commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |