GRE Word List
AMBROSIA
the food of the Greek and Roman gods
The meaning of the word ambrosia is the food of the Greek and Roman gods.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| abnegation | denial |