GRE Word List
COVENANT
a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact
The meaning of the word covenant is a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| viable | capable of living |
| putrefy | to make putrid |