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 |
|---|---|
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| stringent | tight |