GRE Word List
SATELLITE
a celestial body orbiting another of larger size
The meaning of the word satellite is a celestial body orbiting another of larger size.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| opaque | blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity (see opacity |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |