GRE Word List
AFTERLIFE
an existence after death
The meaning of the word afterlife is an existence after death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| gazette | newspaper |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |