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 |
|---|---|
| colander | a perforated utensil for washing or draining food |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| pilfer | steal |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |