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 |
|---|---|
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| delineate | to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail |