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
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abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |