GRE Word List
RIFT
fissure
The meaning of the word rift is fissure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |