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 |
|---|---|
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| raspy | harsh |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |