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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| repercussion | reflection |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| guileless | innocent |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |