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 |
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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 |