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 |
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| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
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| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |