GRE Word List
RANDOM
a haphazard course
The meaning of the word random is a haphazard course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| sentinel | sentry |
| viable | capable of living |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |