GRE Word List
SPECTRUM
a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order
The meaning of the word spectrum is a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
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| intermediary | mediator |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |