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 |
|---|---|
| billowing | wave |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |