GRE Word List
SPORADIC
occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
The meaning of the word sporadic is occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |