GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |