GRE Word List
SALVAGE
compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck
The meaning of the word salvage is compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rarefied | being less dense |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| natal | native |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |