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 |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |