GRE Word List
VERITY
the quality or state of being true or real
The meaning of the word verity is the quality or state of being true or real.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |