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 |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| blatant | noisy especially in a vulgar or offensive manner : clamorous |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |