GRE Word List
RESPIRATION
the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs
The meaning of the word respiration is the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |