GRE Word List
RANK
relative standing or position
The meaning of the word rank is relative standing or position.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |