GRE Word List
VITAL
of the utmost importance
The meaning of the word vital is of the utmost importance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| 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 |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| auroral | dawn |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |