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 |
|---|---|
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| clown | farmer |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |