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 |
|---|---|
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| primal | original |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |