GRE Word List
SHEER
unqualified
The meaning of the word sheer is unqualified.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| schism | division |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |