GRE Word List
TERTIARY
of third rank, importance, or value
The meaning of the word tertiary is of third rank, importance, or value.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |