GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| pliant | pliable |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| provident | frugal |