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 |
|---|---|
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
