GRE Word List
SELECTIVE
of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select
The meaning of the word selective is of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| niggle | trifle |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |