GRE Word List
TANGENTIAL
touching lightly : incidental
The meaning of the word tangential is touching lightly : incidental.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |