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 |
|---|---|
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| paltry | inferior |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |