GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| savory | having savor: such as |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |