GRE Word List
OPTIONAL
involving an option : not compulsory
The meaning of the word optional is involving an option : not compulsory.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| quarry | game |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| historic | historical |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |