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 |
|---|---|
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| entity | being |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |