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 |
|---|---|
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |