GRE Word List
QUEER
differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd
The meaning of the word queer is differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| 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 |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| eventual | contingent |