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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cogitateto ponder or meditate on usually intently
retrogradehaving or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars
tomebook
sanctuarya consecrated place: such as
viandan item of food
surgeto rise and fall actively : toss
probea slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity)
nettleany of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs
calorificcaloric
alimentaryof or relating to nourishment or nutrition