GRE Word List
VALID
having legal efficacy or force
The meaning of the word valid is having legal efficacy or force.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| seemly | good-looking |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |