GRE Word List
ABODE
the place where one lives : home
The meaning of the word abode is the place where one lives : home.
Random words
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cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
inanimate | not animate: |
recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
tightwad | a close or miserly person |
archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |