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 |
|---|---|
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| billowing | wave |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |