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 |
|---|---|
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| concur | to express agreement |
| unsavory | insipid |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |