GRE Word List
AFTERLIFE
an existence after death
The meaning of the word afterlife is an existence after death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| denomination | an act of denominating |