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 |
|---|---|
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| contrive | devise |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| flowery | of, relating to, or resembling flowers |
| coin | corner |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |