GRE Word List
VENAL
capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable
The meaning of the word venal is capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| 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 |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| fleck | streak |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |