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 |
|---|---|
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |