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 |
|---|---|
| wastrel | vagabond |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
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