GRE Word List
VERSATILE
embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills
The meaning of the word versatile is embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| throes | pang |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |