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 |
|---|---|
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |