GRE Word List
RIFT
fissure
The meaning of the word rift is fissure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |