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 |
|---|---|
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |