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

WordMeaning
ennuia feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom
holocausta sacrifice (see sacrifice
lagone that lags or is last
smirkto smile in a smug or condescending way
tyrannyoppressive power
vigilantea member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
dilateto become enlarged or widened
crypta chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground
grotesquea style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
disparageto depreciate (see depreciate