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 |
|---|---|
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| obscure | dark |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |