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

WordMeaning
abstainto choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice
insensatelacking sense or understanding
overwroughtextremely excited : agitated
requisitionthe act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action
cadaverousof or relating to a corpse
ferociousexhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
torridparched with heat especially of the sun : hot
bandyto discuss lightly or banteringly
bereavementthe state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone
concavehollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl