GRE Word List
RIVULET
a small stream
The meaning of the word rivulet is a small stream.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| toss | to throw with a quick, light, or careless motion or with a sudden jerk |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |