GRE Word List
RUDIMENTARY
consisting in first principles : fundamental
The meaning of the word rudimentary is consisting in first principles : fundamental.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| 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 |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |