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 |
|---|---|
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |