GRE Word List
SYNCHRONOUS
happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time
The meaning of the word synchronous is happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |