GRE Word List
ROSTER
a roll or list of personnel
The meaning of the word roster is a roll or list of personnel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |