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 |
|---|---|
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |