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 |
|---|---|
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |