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 |
|---|---|
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| natal | native |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| gnarl | snarl |
| reverie | daydream |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |