GRE Word List
RIFT
fissure
The meaning of the word rift is fissure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| mystic | mystical |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |