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 |
|---|---|
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |