GRE Word List
NOMINAL
of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction
The meaning of the word nominal is of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| appease | pacify |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| quisling | traitor |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |