GRE Word List
TEMPERATE
having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature
The meaning of the word temperate is having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| submerge | to put under water |
| natal | native |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |