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 |
|---|---|
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| potentate | ruler |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |