GRE Word List
TRAVERSE
to go or travel across or over
The meaning of the word traverse is to go or travel across or over.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| significant | having meaning |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |