GRE Word List
RAREFIED
being less dense
The meaning of the word rarefied is being less dense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| pitfall | trap |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |