GRE Word List
TRANSITION
a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another
The meaning of the word transition is a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hurl | rush |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |