GRE Word List
PARTIAL
of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total
The meaning of the word partial is of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |