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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| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
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| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |