GRE Word List
TENTATIVE
not fully worked out or developed
The meaning of the word tentative is not fully worked out or developed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| comeback | a sharp or witty reply : retort |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |