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 |
|---|---|
| asunder | into parts |
| bauble | trinket |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| viable | capable of living |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |