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 |
|---|---|
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |