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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| crass | gross |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |