GRE Word List
SERPENTINE
of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement)
The meaning of the word serpentine is of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| pungent | sharply painful |