GRE Word List
AFTERLIFE
an existence after death
The meaning of the word afterlife is an existence after death.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power and authority |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| putrefy | to make putrid |