GRE Word List
ORACULAR
resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery)
The meaning of the word oracular is resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| blanch | to take the color out of |