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 |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| antecede | precede |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| hardy | bold |