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 |
|---|---|
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |