GRE Word List
PATENT
open to public inspection
The meaning of the word patent is open to public inspection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |