GRE Word List
NOURISHMENT
food
The meaning of the word nourishment is food.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |