GRE Word List
ROTE
the use of memory usually with little intelligence
The meaning of the word rote is the use of memory usually with little intelligence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |