GRE Word List
OBSOLETE
no longer in use or no longer useful
The meaning of the word obsolete is no longer in use or no longer useful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| crass | gross |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |