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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| sheer | unqualified |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |