GRE Word List
URGENT
calling for immediate attention : pressing
The meaning of the word urgent is calling for immediate attention : pressing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| teetotalism | the principle or practice of complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |