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 |
|---|---|
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
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| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| abnegation | denial |