GRE Word List
STRICTURE
an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage
The meaning of the word stricture is an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| 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 |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |