GRE Word List
TERTIARY
of third rank, importance, or value
The meaning of the word tertiary is of third rank, importance, or value.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| cuisine | manner of preparing food : style of cooking |
| reverberate | reflect |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |