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 |
|---|---|
| dally | to act playfully |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| demure | reserved |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| stringent | tight |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| submissive | submitting to others |