GRE Word List
RAMIFY
to split up into branches or constituent parts
The meaning of the word ramify is to split up into branches or constituent parts.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| euphony | pleasing or sweet sound |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| apropos | being both relevant and opportune |