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 |
|---|---|
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |