GRE Word List
PERIPHERY
the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve
The meaning of the word periphery is the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| imprecation | curse |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| license | permission to act |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| demented | mad |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |