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 |
|---|---|
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| mortician | undertaker |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |