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 |
|---|---|
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| guileless | innocent |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |