GRE Word List
NOMENCLATURE
name
The meaning of the word nomenclature is name.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |