GRE Word List
RESIDUAL
remainder
The meaning of the word residual is remainder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| ogle | to glance with amorous invitation or challenge |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |