GRE Word List
RARE
seldom occurring or found : uncommon
The meaning of the word rare is seldom occurring or found : uncommon.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |