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 |
|---|---|
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| intermediary | mediator |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |