GRE Word List
TENSILE
capable of tension : ductile
The meaning of the word tensile is capable of tension : ductile.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| braid | to make from braids |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |