GRE Word List
PLASTICITY
the quality or state of being plastic
The meaning of the word plasticity is the quality or state of being plastic.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |