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 |
|---|---|
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| imprecation | curse |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |