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 |
|---|---|
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |