GRE Word List
RIFT
fissure
The meaning of the word rift is fissure.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| momentum | a property (see property |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |