GRE Word List
RESPONSIVENESS
state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc.; ADJ. responsive: readily reacting; Ex. responsive to treatment
The meaning of the word responsiveness is state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc.; ADJ. responsive: readily reacting; Ex. responsive to treatment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reimburse | repay; pay back |
| placebo | harmless substance prescribed as a dummy pill |
| jingoist | extremely aggressive and militant patriot; warlike chauvinist; N. jingoism: extreme nationalism |
| elysian | relating to paradise; blissful |
| jaded | tired or uninterested by surfeit; fatigued; surfeited; worn out; wearied; Ex. jaded appetite |
| debunk | expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule |
| quagmire | bog; marsh; soft, wet, boggy land; predicament; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself |
| rectitude | moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment |
| postmortem | autopsy; ADJ: occurring after death; of a postmortem |
| ruminate | chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically); mull over(ponder) |
