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 |
|---|---|
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| brawl | to quarrel or fight noisily : wrangle |
| foppish | foolish |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |