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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| lunar | crescent |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |