GRE Word List
RAREFIED
being less dense
The meaning of the word rarefied is being less dense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
| 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 |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| jeopardize | to expose to danger or risk : imperil |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| quench | put out |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |