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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| convention | agreement |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| 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 |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |