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 |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| lilliputian | of, relating to, or characteristic of the Lilliputians or the island of Lilliput |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |