GRE Word List
RELEVANT
having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand
The meaning of the word relevant is having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |