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 |
|---|---|
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |