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 |
|---|---|
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| deputize | to appoint as deputy |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |