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 |
|---|---|
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| encumber | weigh down |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |