GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| abnegation | denial |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |