GRE Word List
SOLECISM
an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence
The meaning of the word solecism is an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |