GRE Word List
TRANSIENT
passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory
The meaning of the word transient is passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| reek | smoke |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| fete | festival |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |