GRE Word List
OPTIMUM
the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end
The meaning of the word optimum is the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |