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 |
|---|---|
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |