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 |
|---|---|
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |