GRE Word List
SEDENTARY
not migratory : settled
The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gnarl | snarl |