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 |
|---|---|
| obese | having excessive body fat |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| doddering | feeble |