GRE Word List
TRUNK
the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots
The meaning of the word trunk is the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frail | easily led into evil |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |