GRE Word List
RANK
relative standing or position
The meaning of the word rank is relative standing or position.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |