GRE Word List
ALCOVE
a small recessed section of a room : nook
The meaning of the word alcove is a small recessed section of a room : nook.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |