GRE Word List
RAVENOUS
rapacious
The meaning of the word ravenous is rapacious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| collected | gathered together |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |