GRE Word List
RUBRIC
an authoritative rule
The meaning of the word rubric is an authoritative rule.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| faculty | ability |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |