GRE Word List
RIFT
fissure
The meaning of the word rift is fissure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| shack | hut |