GRE Word List
REMNANT
a usually small part, member, or trace remaining
The meaning of the word remnant is a usually small part, member, or trace remaining.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| clamor | noisy shouting |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |