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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| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
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| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
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| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |