GRE Word List
OUTSKIRTS
a part remote from the center : border
The meaning of the word outskirts is a part remote from the center : border.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| trenchant | keen |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |