GRE Word List
PARAMETER
an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves)
The meaning of the word parameter is an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| primal | original |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |