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 |
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| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |