GRE Word List
RIVULET
a small stream
The meaning of the word rivulet is a small stream.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| shambles | a meat market |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| 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 |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| microcosm | a little world |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |