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 |
|---|---|
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| frail | easily led into evil |