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 |
|---|---|
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |