GRE Word List
NONSENSE
words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
The meaning of the word nonsense is words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| sophist | philosopher |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |