GRE Word List
SEMINARY
an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated
The meaning of the word seminary is an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| toss | to throw with a quick, light, or careless motion or with a sudden jerk |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| condign | deserved |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |