GRE Word List
VITAL
of the utmost importance
The meaning of the word vital is of the utmost importance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |