GRE Word List
AMAZON
female warrior
The meaning of the word amazon is female warrior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| motility | ability to move spontaneously; ADJ. motile: moving spontaneously |
| juncture | crisis; point in time; joining point; joint; act of joining |
| peccadillo | slight offense or fault; CF. sin |
| vogue | popular fashion; Ex. Jeans became the vogue. |
| reparation | compensation (for loss or wrong); amends; Ex. make reparation for the damage; CF. repair |
| rejuvenate | make young again |
| macabre | gruesome; grisly; ghastly; CF. of death |
| levity | lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity; lightness of manner |
| mores | conventions; moral standards; moral customs |
| compound | combine; produce by combining; increase; make worse by adding to or increasing; exacerbate; Ex. compound an error; ADJ: consisting of two or more parts; N: combination of two or more parts; area enclosed by a wall containing a group of buildings; Ex. factory compound; CF. complex |
