GRE Word List
RIVETING
having the power to fix the attention : engrossing
The meaning of the word riveting is having the power to fix the attention : engrossing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| grudging | unwilling |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |