GRE Word List
VITAL
of the utmost importance
The meaning of the word vital is of the utmost importance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |