GRE Word List
TERMINOLOGY
the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject
The meaning of the word terminology is the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| calorific | caloric |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |