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 |
|---|---|
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| agenda | a list or outline of things to be considered or done |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |