GRE Word List
RESIDUAL
remainder
The meaning of the word residual is remainder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |