GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
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