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 |
|---|---|
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| quarry | game |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |