GRE Word List
VIRTUAL
being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted
The meaning of the word virtual is being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |