GRE Word List
STRATUM
a bed or layer artificially made
The meaning of the word stratum is a bed or layer artificially made.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| restitution | an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |