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 |
|---|---|
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |