GRE Word List
PEDESTAL
the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration
The meaning of the word pedestal is the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| condign | deserved |