GRE Word List
TERRESTRIAL
of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants
The meaning of the word terrestrial is of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |