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 |
|---|---|
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| grotesque | a 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 |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |