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 |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| fauna | animal life |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |