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 |
|---|---|
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |