GRE Word List
ALLUDE
to make indirect reference
The meaning of the word allude is to make indirect reference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| forebears | ancestor |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |