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 |
|---|---|
| cryptic | secret |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |