GRE Word List
STAMINA
the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance
The meaning of the word stamina is the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |