GRE Word List
PINION
the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges
The meaning of the word pinion is the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| license | permission to act |