GRE Word List
ZEAL
eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor
The meaning of the word zeal is eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| monochromatic | having or consisting of one color or hue |
| monochrome | a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue |
| biennial | occurring every two years |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| 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 |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| 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 |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |