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 |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| comeback | a sharp or witty reply : retort |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| polity | political organization |