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 |
|---|---|
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |