GRE Word List
RAREFIED
being less dense
The meaning of the word rarefied is being less dense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| defalcate | deduct |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| vixen | a female fox |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |