GRE Word List
NEXUS
connection
The meaning of the word nexus is connection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| imbibe | drink |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| superficial | of, relating to, or located near a surface |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |