GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |