GRE Word List
RAREFIED
being less dense
The meaning of the word rarefied is being less dense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |