GRE Word List
AMENITIES
something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment
The meaning of the word amenities is something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drab | slattern |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |