GRE Word List
RAREFIED
being less dense
The meaning of the word rarefied is being less dense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| decipher | decode |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| clime | climate |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |