GRE Word List
PINNACE
a light sailing ship
The meaning of the word pinnace is a light sailing ship.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| auroral | dawn |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |