GRE Word List
TERMINUS
either end of a transportation line or travel route
The meaning of the word terminus is either end of a transportation line or travel route.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| noisome | noxious |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| hirsute | hairy |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |