GRE Word List
ORIFICE
an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass
The meaning of the word orifice is an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| 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 |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| veracious | truthful |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |